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Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown
is finally fulfilling her long-delayed promise to tackle campaign
finance reform. Oregon is one of only four states that places no limits
on political contri
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Portland
seems to be coming to terms with the so-called “sharing
economy”—witness the deal, first reported by wweek.com, that Mayor Charlie Hales cut with Uber
to have the ride-sharing com
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The city’s Independent Police Review
has published the results of its investigation of the Portland Police
Bureau’s handling of local hip-hop shows—and finds that city regulators,
police o
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Portland, your Uber is arriving—in court. The city
of Portland on Dec. 8 sued the ride-sharing company and is asking a
federal judge to block Uber from operating here until it’s willing to
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Portland city officials say they will finally crack down on Airbnb hosts who don’t get safety inspections. WW
reported last month that only 4 percent of Airbnb hosts in Portland had
bothered to
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Portland real-estate developer Terry Bean rose to prominence in national politics as a founder of the Human Rights Campaign,
the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization. But the HRC announced
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Alcohol and monkeys don’t mix. That’s the warning from a former Oregon National Primate Research Center employee,
who says she was fired in June after reporting that her boss was
getting a fel
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On Nov. 7, the Multnomah County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that the Oct. 14 death of Cougar Burleigh—a
38-year-old Olympia, Wash., man who was found at about 3:30 am Oct. 12
on the west s
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The next stop for Portland’s apartment boom? Neighborhoods east of 82nd Avenue. A new report from the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability predicts commercial districts in East Portland wi
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It’s not just your imagination: Portlanders are hot under the collar about City Hall. City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade
has released the annual survey gauging how well citizens feel the city
o
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"In the low usage areas, we found that our vehicles sit idle four times longer, ultimately affecting overall vehicle availability for the Portland membership base, as well as parking for the Portland community."

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East Portland can't catch a break.Just this week KGW had a story called, "Diverse, non-cool East Por... More